Have you used Ping.fm to promote your blog posts? Ping.fm is a service that allows you to send a message to multiple social networking sites with one click. This is an efficient way to get any kind of message out to all your online communities that you belong to. However, it is not a replacement [...]
Continuing on with the gold you can find in them there Twitter Tweets, like my previous articles 21 Terrific Tweets and 22 Terrific Tweets hare are 23 more nuggets for you: 1. – del.icio.us is now delicious.com. We can all stop suffering from typing del.icio.us. Although clever, it wasn’t fun to type if you didn’t [...]
I was looking at how content can be presented in tabs and found a few choices. To clear up what I mean by tabbed content, here is an example from Problogger: Tabbed content allows you to place content under a tabbed menu selection. This helps to reduce clutter as well as organize multiple things in [...]
Yaro Starak’s Blog Mastermind is a course I took last year (2007) on blogging. I had just started a blog and was trying to help my wife start one as well. There were so many questions I had from reading other blogs that I knew I needed some direction as we discovered this thing called [...]
The title of this blog post could certainly be Working in Firefox. However, Creating fits much better since that’s what we want to feel like when we’re “working” and it has a more positive connotation than Working does for some people. Also, if you have a boss or someone(s) standing over your shoulder who wants [...]
StumbleUpon allows you to channel surf the web by “stumbling upon” web sites of any type as well as web sites that are of interest to you. In there own words: “StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests. Whether it’s a web page, photo or video, our personalized recommendation engine learns what you like, [...]
Google maps now includes walking directions. Well, in beta anyway. Let’s say your in Omaha, NE for the College World Series and you want to walk to this place everyone’s been raving about – Zesto’s. Well, you’d pull your handy-dandy mobile device out, browse to Google maps and type in 1202 Bert Murphy Ave Omaha, [...]
In my previous post 21 Terrific Tweets, I noted how you can find some good stuff in twitter. This time, here are 22 terrific twitter tweets. I’m tellin’ ya’ – There’s gold in them there tweets. 1. – Do you want to test iPhone apps or see what the iPhone has to offer? Here’s an [...]
For those of you that have never heard of StumbleUpon, it’s a website that allows you to randomly “Stumble Upon” websites. You install a toolbar in your browser and click on a button that says, “Stumble!” and it will start to present you with websites. There are categories that you can select so StumbleUpon will only [...]
WordPress 2.6 has been released and here’s a video from a post by Matt. If you don’t want to upgrade but you want to play with WordPress 2.6, you can always install it locally on your PC. Read How To Run WordPress 2.6 beta 1 to run WordPress locally. The easiest way to upgrade is [...]
In Daniel Scocco’s article Are Social Networks Like the Fashion Industry? at DailyBlogTips, Daniel presents an argument on whether social networks are like the fashion industry where one social site becomes popular for a period of time and then everyone moves on to something new and cool, and then – rinse and repeat. Daniel asks, [...]
Here are four videos by Ira Glass on YouTube about Storytelling. Ira Glass on Storytelling #1 Building a story Making listeners/readers want to keep listening/reading for some reason Speak naturally Ira Glass on Storytelling #2 Know when to abandon crap Get rid of the boring parts Failure is a big part of success More failure [...]
TweetDeck is a Twitter client that runs on your computer using Adobe AIR. It seems to be taking off in popularity and while they are designing it and taking input, I thought I’d write about a few things I would like to see and introduce you to TweetDeck as well. Here are some TweetDeck features: [...]
If you’ve been wondering about WordPress tags and how to use them, then browse over to Ninja Blog Setup where Jon Symons has a free ebook on What Every Blogger Ought to Know About Tags. Summary: WordPress Tags are not the same as WordPress Categories Tag the nouns in your WordPress blog posts Tag non-textual [...]
WordPress keeps evolving and getting better and better. The current production version is 2.5.1 and 2.6 beta 1 has been hot off the presses for a few days now, and I thought I’d take the time to remind folks how to run it locally so you can play. I currently use XAMPP Lite 1.6.6a for [...]
